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You know, it is getting almost too amusing to watch the modern Republicans and conservatives who are running for office. This is so ridiculous, yet at the same time, so horrible, that one must actually pause and legitimately think about what it all means for the future of this country, and that causes worry.

Take Frank Szabo, for instance. He is a New Hampshire candidate running for sheriff. When asked what his opinion was about abortion, he replied that he would go so far as to use deadly force to stop the abortion from happening. Let me say that again, because it bears repeating – if he sees a doctor performing a procedure that is completely legal in this country, he would used deadly force against this person. He would kill them. A sheriff candidate of New Hampshire wants to murder doctors. Straight-up, no BS, murder. In other words, he wants to take what is legal, and make it illegal, at the threat of violence. He is a protector of the law who wants to make the law. Think about that for a few.

Next up, we’ve got Tennessee senator, Stacey Campfield. This guy had some rather interesting thoughts on AIDS, and how it is spread –

Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community. It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall. My understanding is that it is virtually – not completely, but virtually – impossible to contract AIDS from heterosexual sex.

Yeah, that’s why there are massive amounts of cases of it in Africa, right? Take another moment, and take this in. This is a United States senator, saying something so stupid, and even admitting that they don’t know any better, and saying this on the record. How stupid can you possibly get?

I mean, for one thing, it is incredibly unlikely that AIDS made the jump from chimps to humans. That story has been debunked over and over again. And the fact that this disease is a global pandemic, which has been helped along in Africa thanks to the zealotry of Catholics who refuse to supply condoms to villages where this disease is so bad that 1 in 4 people have it, obviously means nothing to you.

Next up, there is Rep. Steve King. He has decided to add another point to the laundry-list of stupidity that has come from his mouth. In a recent interview, he said that he hasn’t heard of a case where a girl got pregnant from statutory rape or incest. This was in solidarity with the completely idiotic nonsense coming from Todd Akin, and his belief that if a woman gets raped, her body will be able to shut it down. A statement that he has apologized for, yet hasn’t said is wrong. Remember that.

This is the same guy who has said in the past that gays should just stay in the closet if they want their jobs, and not be open at all. Basically saying that all the hate and bigotry of society shouldn’t be something that they get protection from. They should just hide, and not be honest about who they are.

What interests me about all of these people is this – why are they being so openly evil? I mean, we all knew that the Republicans were bought and paid for by the banks and Wall Street. The Democrats are no better in that regard. But the Democrats are still able to actually convince people that they are the good guys! That they are on your side. Heck, they have a huge cabal of liberals who are cheering for Health Care Reform, which, without a public option, is a huge birthday present to the private insurance companies.

I mean, look at Obama. He has lied, time and time again, and he has massive support all over this country. He has continued, and even grown the Bush doctrine, both foreign and domestic. He promised that we wouldn’t be doing the same things with Wall Street and the financial institutions, yet he is taking his cues from the same people who destroyed our economy. He said that he would go easy on people growing their own pot, yet he has expanded the drug war. He promised tough reforms on Wall Street, yet he has given us beyond toothless garbage. He said that he would push for tough health care reform, yet he dropped single-payer and the public option almost in the first day. He has continued, and even grown ALL of the Bush Tax Cuts. He swore that he wouldn’t give in to Republican demands on the debt ceiling, yet in the end, he gives them everything they want, and then some.

But all over this country, he has liberals coming out and chanting for him. For some, it is the reasoning that Mitt Romney would be worse. The evil they know over the evil they don’t. For others, they actually seem to think that he is going to come back in the second term and really play hardball (cough*bullshit*cough). And there are some who think that he has actually done some really good stuff, even though the evidence is massively stacked against him, and Mitt Romney, if he was actually a smart politician, could be beating the stuffing out of him right now with his own policies. That is grade-A manipulation and lying.

Yet these Republicans are so evil, and wear it so much on their sleeves that I almost expect to see them do the pose that Dr. Evil did in Austin Powers. I mean, they aren’t even hiding it!

So I guess the question is – how do we satire this? For real, I am almost feeling bad for the people who write for The Onion. Their job must be getting so difficult. This nation and it’s electoral politics is becoming such an entertainment experience that part of me wonders if there are actual issues being talked about anymore.

So, is the Republican mask off? Hey, when you’ve got Ann Coulter, a prostitute for the conservative line, saying that Todd Akin has crossed the line, part of me has to think that, yeah, they have.